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According to the Roman historian Ptolemy, Babylonian astronomers noted history's first recorded eclipse: an eclipse of the moon
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| 235:
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Maximinus proclaimed Emperor of Rome
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| 624:
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Muhammed proclaims the "Day of Deliverance"
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| 1128:
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The Templars receive the Castle of Soure, from Queen Theresa of Portugal
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| 1148:
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The 2nd Crusade reaches Antioch
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| 1227:
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Election of Pope Gregory IX
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| 1229:
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Because of Frederick II Hohenstaufen's entry into Jerusalem, the Archbishop of Caesarea places Jerusalem under Interdict
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| 1255:
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The Church permits Aristotle to be taught in the Universities
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| 1286:
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Death of Alexander III, King of Scotland
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| 1307:
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Early on Palm Sunday the forces lead by the Scottish knight Sir James Douglas (aka Black Douglas, Good Sir James) annihlated the British troops occupying his castle, which later comes to be called the 'Douglas Larder'
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| 1452:
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Frederick III becomes the last Holy Roman Emperor crowned in Rome
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| 1519:
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Henry II, King of France (1547-59) born
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| 1532:
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King Henry VIII of England confiscates Church Annates
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| 1563:
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The Peace of Amboise ended the First War of Religion in France. The Huguenots were granted a limited amount of toleration
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| 1589:
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William Bradford, governor of Plymouth colony for 30 years born
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| 1603:
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John IV, "the Fortunate," King of Portugal born
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| 1628:
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90 Puritan merchants (New England Co.) receive New World land patent; Massachusetts Colony founded
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| 1649:
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English Parliament abolishes the Monarchy
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| 1687:
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French explorer Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle -- the first European to navigate the length of the Mississippi River -- was murdered by mutineers in present-day Texas
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| 1813:
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Scottish physician, missionary and explorer David Livingstone was born in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland. The Scotsman exercised a formative influence upon Western attitudes toward Africa
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| 1821:
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Explorer and translator of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, Sir Richard F. Burton was born to an English family living in Ireland. When he died in 1890, his wife, Isabel, burnt his unpublished manuscripts.
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| 1823:
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Beethoven gave Archduke Rudolph his "Missa Solemnis"
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| 1831:
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The first bank robbery in America was reported. The City Bank of New York City lost $245,000 in the heist
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| 1848:
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Marshal Wyatt Earp born
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| 1853:
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During the Taiping Rebellion in China, the rebels captured Nanking and renamed it T'ien-ching (Heavenly Capital)
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| 1859:
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The opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premiered in Paris
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| 1860:
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American political leader William Jennings Bryan was born in Salem, Illinois. (d.1925) The "Silver-tongued Orator," as he was called, was a free silver advocate and a three-time presidential candidate.
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| 1881:
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Edith Nourse Rogers was born. She was a YMCA and Red Cross volunteer in France during World War I. She was the first woman to have her name attached to major legislation. She was reelected to the House 17 times.
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| 1891:
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Chief Justice Earl Warren born
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| 1910:
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The first all-Bartok concert was given in Budapest
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| 1914:
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Actress Patricia Morison (Peyton Place) born
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| 1916:
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Irving Wallace, author (The People's Almanac) born
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| 1917:
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The US Supreme Court upheld the eight-hour work day for railroads
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| 1918:
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Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time. The act authorized Congress to establish time zones for the U.S. It was also established to save fuel and to promote the economies in a country at war
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| 1920:
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Tthe US Senate rejected for the second time the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 49 in favor, 35 against, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed for approval
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| 1925:
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Former White House national security adviser Brent Scowcroft born
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| 1928:
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Actor-director Patrick McGoohan born
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| 1928:
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Theologian Hans Kung born
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| 1928:
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"Amos and Andy" debuts on radio. Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll left WGN Radio in Chicago to head across town to WMAQ Radio. Due to contract limitations they weren't permitted to take their popular radio show names
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| 1931:
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Nevada legalized gambling
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| 1932:
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Australia's Sydney Harbor Bridge was officially opened
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| 1933:
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Author Philip Roth born
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| 1935:
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Actress-singer Phyllis Newman born
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| 1935:
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Actress Renee Taylor born
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| 1935:
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Actress Nancy Malone born
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| 1936:
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Actress Ursula Andress born
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| 1937:
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Singer Clarence "Frogman" Henry born
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| 1942:
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With World War II under way, all men in the United States between the ages of 45 and 64, about 13 million, were ordered to register with the draft boards for non-military duty
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| 1944:
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Lynda Bird Johnson Robb born
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| 1945:
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About eight hundred people were killed as Kamikaze planes attacked the US carrier "Franklin" off Japan; the ship, however, was saved
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| 1945:
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Adolf Hitler issued his so-called "Nero Decree," ordering the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Allied hands
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| 1946:
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Singer Ruth Pointer (The Pointer Sisters) born
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| 1946:
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Rock musician (The Zombies) Paul Atkinson born
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| 1947:
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Actress Glenn Close born
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| 1948:
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The quickest main event in the history of Madison Square Garden in New York City, a crowd of spectators watch Lee Savold knock out Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds of the first round of their prize fight
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| 1949:
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The American Museum of Atomic Energy opened in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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| 1951:
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Herman Wouk's war novel "The Caine Mutiny" is published. He later won a Pulitzer Prize for the novel
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| 1952:
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Composer Chris Brubeck born
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| 1953:
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The Academy Awards ceremony was televised for the first time. "The Greatest Show on Earth" was named best picture of 1952. NBC paid $100,000 for the rights to broadcast the event. Bob Hope was the host
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| 1954:
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Viewers saw the first televised prize fight shown in living color as Joey Giardello knocked out Willie Tory in round seven of a scheduled 10-round bout at Madison Square Garden in New York City
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| 1955:
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Actor Bruce Willis born
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| 1955:
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Rock musician (The Bay City Rollers) Derek Longmuir born
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| 1957:
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Elvis Presley purchased a mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, and named it "Graceland."
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| 1958:
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Singer Terry Hall born
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| 1964:
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The Great St. Bernard Tunnel under the Alps between Switzerland and Italy was opened to traffic
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| 1970:
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Rock musician Gert Bettens (K's Choice) born
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| 1976:
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Buckingham Palace announced the separation of Princess Margaret and her husband, the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years of marriage
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| 1979:
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The US House of Representatives began televising its day-to-day business
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| 1982:
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An Argentine scrap metal dealer landed on South Georgia in the Atlantic Ocean and planted an Argentinean flag. The situation escalated and eventually led to the Falklands war
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| 1983:
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The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights charged that the White House and federal agencies had impeded its work by withholding documents, and notified President Reagan that it would issue subpoenas to obtain them
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| 1984:
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TV Show "Kate and Allie" premieres
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| 1985:
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In a legislative victory for President Reagan, the Senate voted, 55-to-45, to authorize production of the M-X missile
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| 1985:
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IBM announced that it was planning to stop making the ill fated PCjr consumer-oriented computer. In the 16 months the PCjr was on the market, only 240,000 units were sold
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| 1987:
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Televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as chairman of his PTL ministry organization amid a sex and money scandal involving Jessica Hahn, a former church secretary
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| 1987:
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President Reagan, in a news conference, repudiated his policy of selling arms to Iran, saying, "I would not go down that road again."
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| 1988:
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Two British soldiers were shot to death after they were dragged from a car and beaten by mourners attending an Irish Republican Army funeral in Belfast, Northern Ireland
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| 1989:
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Alfredo Cristiani of the right-wing ARENA party was elected president of El Salvador, defeating Fidel Chavez Mena of the Christian Democratic Party
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| 1990:
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Latvia's political opposition claimed victory in the republic's first free elections in 50 years, and reformers also claimed victories in crucial runoffs held in Russia, Byelorussia and the Ukraine
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| 1991:
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The Labor Department reported that consumer prices, benefiting from a big monthly decline in gasoline prices, had edged upward only two-tenths of a percentage point the previous month
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| 1992:
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Democrat Paul Tsongas pulled out of the presidential race, leaving Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton the clear favorite to capture their party's nomination
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| 1993:
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Two composers famous mainly for movie music re-entered the recorded repertory with their "longhair" stuff. Koch released a recording of James Sedares and the New Zealand Symphony doing works of Miklos Rozsa, including a Hungarian Nocturne and Three Hungarian Sketches
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| 1993:
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Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White announced plans to retire. (White's departure paved the way for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to become the court's second female justice.)
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| 1994:
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Talks between North Korea and South Korea collapsed, imperiling a U.S.-brokered deal to resolve the North Korean nuclear dispute
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| 1994:
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In his weekly radio address, President Clinton promised to tell people "all across America about our health reform plan and what it really means.""
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| 1995:
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth started an historic state visit to post-apartheid South Africa
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| 1995:
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Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Jewish settlers, killing two people
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| 1996:
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Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination with solid primary victories in four Midwestern states
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| 1996:
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President Clinton rolled out a $1.64 trillion election-year budget, promising it would invigorate the economy, erase federal deficits and cut taxes
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| 1996:
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Sarajevo again became a united city after four years when Moslem-Croat authorities took control of the last district held by Serbs
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| 1997:
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Following the withdrawal of Anthony Lake, President Clinton nominated acting CIA Director George Tenet to head the nation's spy agency
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| 1997:
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President Clinton departed Washington for his summit in Helsinki, Finland, with Russian President Boris Yeltsin
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| 1997:
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Artist Willem de Kooning, considered one of the 20th century's greatest painters, died in East Hampton, New York, at age 92
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| 1998:
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Completing baseball's transformation from family ownership to corporate control, Rupert Murdoch's Fox Group won approval to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers for a record $350 million
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| 1998:
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Ice and snow storms across parts of the High Plains closed schools and highways and downed powerlines. Ice and winds left thousands without power when lines in western Kansas snapped during the late winter storm. Several inches of snow fell in northern Oklahoma and western Kansas, closing schools and businesses in both states
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| 1998:
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A throng of 30,000 ethnic Albanian mourners filed through the dusty streets of Pec to bury the latest victim of violence in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Qerim Muriqi, 52, was shot dead the previous day as he walked toward the center of Pec to take part in a demonstration. Five other Albanians were reported wounded
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| 1999:
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At a White House news conference, President Clinton prepared the nation for airstrikes against Serbian targets following the collapse of Kosovo peace talks in Paris
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| 1999:
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A powerful bomb shattered an outdoor food market in Vladikavkaz, Russia, killing at least 53 people
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| 2000:
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President Clinton arrived near New Delhi on the first presidential visit to India in 22 years as he opened a six-day trip through troubled South Asia.
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| 2005:
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Cassini discovers Saturn moon atmosphere
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| 2005:
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Texas representative proposes to outlaw 'sexy' cheerleading
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| 2005:
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Wales win Grand Slam, RBS Six Nations and the Triple Crown
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| 2005:
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Europe marks second Iraq invasion anniversary
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| 2005:
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Japan will not shoot down missiles headed for allies
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| 2005:
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Rice pushes for fresh nuclear talks with North Korea
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| 2005:
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Lebanese President to skip Arab Summit
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| 2005:
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Pakistan test fires nuclear-capable missile
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| 2006:
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Labor claims victory in two Australian state elections
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| 2006:
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More medals for NZ: Commonwealth Games
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| 2006:
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Second oil disaster in Estonia within two months
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| 2006:
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Avian flu cause of Egyptian woman's death
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| 2006:
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Report Specifies 'Black Room' of Abuse in Iraq
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| 2006:
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Queensland braces for category 5 cyclone
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| 2006:
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PlayStation 3 delayed until November
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| 2006:
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Polling data on President Bush's approval rating indicates recent decline
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| 2006:
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Personal relationship between Bush and McCallum questioned
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| 2006:
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100s of thousands take to the streets across France
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| 2007:
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65th running of the Aiken Trials held
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| 2007:
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Canadian Green Party leader set to challenge MacKay for seat
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| 2007:
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Senior Russian official questions role of NATO, Eurasian Economic Community
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| 2007:
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Former Arizona Governor says he saw a UFO during the 1997 Phoenix Lights
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| 2007:
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Google's YouTube to present its best video awards
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| 2007:
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Doctor robbed, car-jacked and locked in boot while car set alight
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| 2007:
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Black registrar to hold mass wedding in Belgium
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| 2007:
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Cricket World Cup: India vs Bermuda
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| 2007:
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Cricket World Cup: West Indies vs Zimbabwe
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| 2007:
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Contaminated pet food causes massive recall
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| 2007:
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Football: Ronaldo penalty sends United to FA Cup semifinals
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| 2007:
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A380 makes maiden flight to US
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| 2007:
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Football: Chelsea beat out Spurs in FA Cup replay
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| 2007:
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Methane gas explosion at Ulyanovskaya Mine kills at least 108
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| 2008:
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George Bush and Irish Prime Minister attend reception at White House to commemorate St. Patrick's day
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| 2008:
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Moldova's Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev resigns
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| 2008:
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George Bush discusses Iraq 5 years after invasion
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| 2008:
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UAE launches national authority for scientific research
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| 2008:
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Pakistan's parliament elects first female speaker
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| 2008:
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Three of Serbia's neighbours recognize Kosovo
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| 2008:
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Hubble detects methane on distant planet
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| 2008:
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McCanns granted newspaper apologies
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| 2008:
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Visionary and author Arthur C. Clarke dead at age 90
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| 2009:
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Pennsylvania Amish farmer jailed for outhouse violations
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| 2009:
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7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes near Tonga, tsunami generated
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| 2009:
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US supports UN gay rights declaration
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| 2009:
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Harlan Ellison sues CBS-Paramount, WGA over Star Trek royalties
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| 2009:
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Usain Bolt to run 150 metre race in Manchester
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| 2009:
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British actress Natasha Richardson dies at age 45
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| 2009:
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North Korean military detains two American journalists
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| 2009:
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Monty Python's "Holy Hand Grenade" sparks bomb scare
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| 2010:
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Seismologist Mario Pardo rebukes notion that Pichilemu, Chile experiencing "seismic swarm"
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| 2011:
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US and UK forces join Libyan attack
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| 2011:
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Crucifixes can be displayed in state schools, European court rules
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| 2011:
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Israel bombarding Gaza after Hamas mortar attack
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| 2011:
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BBC DJ duo break radio record
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| 2011:
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French aircraft on flights over Libya; US missiles launched at targets
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| 2011:
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ICANN approves .xxx domain for pornography
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| 2011:
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UN carries out first review of US human rights record
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| 2011:
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45 killed after Yemen protesters fired upon
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| 2011:
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Part of California highway near Big Sur falls into the sea
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| 2012:
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Adam Folkard and Nick Norton ready for more men's softball
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| 2012:
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Japanese national team beats ACT softball team
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Buffalo hunter, saloon keeper and Western frontier lawman, Wyatt Earp born in Monmouth, Illinois
Art model, Bond girl, and Golden Globe Award winning actress, Ursula Andress born in Berne, Switzerland
Singer, actor and co-founder of Planet Hollywood, Walter Bruce Willis born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany